Striking Economist chart in the latest Tooze newsletter. Presumably NY's vertiginous rents would make NY's _real_ real wages (i.e. real wages post housing costs) look even worse by comparison. New mayor really has got a challenge on his hands

Terrific new @davidharvey.org essay on Sraffa, including this lovely coda about the course he co-taught at Hopkins in the 1990s with a young Mark Blyth...

newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...

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The only good thing to come of the Chicago parking privatization debacle was this article by Stephanie Farmer -- still (IMHO) the best scholarly thing ever written on the privatization/financialization of urban infrastructure